Gusto also serves daily specials and the kitchen team is encouraged to come up with their own ideas and dishes every day. The dough is made in house and has just four ingredients: water, flour, yeast and salt.Īnd just recently, the kitchen team has perfected gluten-free pizza dough. The restaurant pumps out about 1,200 Naples-style pizzas from its 720˚F wood-fired oven every week. Today, running a 60-seat restaurant (plus 60-seat summer patio) from within a less than 400-square-foot kitchen is enough action for Lee.Īnd Pizzeria Gusto offers its share of action. He is done with the grueling hours and partying that is often part of the restaurant scene. Lee figures he has worked at about 12 different restaurants in his 16-year career. Gusano’s Chicago-Style Pizza is your destination for the best pizza, coldest drinks, friendliest service, local events, and entertainment We are proud to serve each and every community that we are a part of. I love the fact that you can keep learning. He later worked at restaurants and hotel kitchens in Toronto, Halifax, Australia and the Bahamas before returning to Winnipeg. The born-and-raised Winnipegger worked his way up the food chain within Earls and graduated from cooking school at Red River College. He started in the business as an 18-year-old dishwasher at Earls on Pembina Highway. “I have a very reasonable life but it took me a long time to get there.” He isn't a big Tweeter and doesn't court attention. The new father works about 50 hours a week. Lee takes a more relaxed approach to the Winnipeg food scene.
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We feature fresh pasta dishes, wood fired pizzas, a full service bar featuring specialty cocktails and draft beer along with a wine list boasting Italian as well as local favorites. You can now order online all your favourite dishes and many more delicious options, and have them delivered straight to your door in no time at all. From the traditional carbonara to our specialty saffron pappardelle, the authentic flavors of Italy are brought to life at Gusto. Try our new online app which contains our entire takeaway menu. There are about a dozen Winnipeg chefs who are social media and public relations wizards, regularly appear on local television shows, helm fundraisers and write food columns for print and online publications. Order food online from Gusto Pizza Pasta Its so easy to use fast and convenient. “I like to keep a pretty low profile,” says Lee.
The list, which also included Segovia in Winnipeg, has shone a spotlight on the normally low-key Lee. That said, there must be something very special about the 34-year-old's repetitive work because Pizzeria Gusto was named one of Canada's top 50 restaurants in 2012 by Maclean's magazine.
It's working with your hands and it's a lot of repetitive work.” “You can put art into it but it's a craft. “It's not an art, it's a trade,” says Lee, Pizzeria Gusto's chef. Chef Eric Lee stands in front of the Naples-style wood-fired oven, the centrepiece inside Academy Road's Pizzeria GustoĬhef Eric Lee doesn't buy the whole chef-as-artist movement.
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